The consequences of “overshoot” are already clear: habitat and species loss, and accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere. The Ecological Footprint adds up all the ecological services people demand ...

Ecological overshoot is measured using ecological footprint analysis, which assesses humanity’s total demand on nature’s services over a one-year period compared to the capability of biologically ...

Supply and demand can cause issues for forest management. If the customer demands more timber because of an increase in purchasing, a forest management organisation could struggle as trees will ...

Steel factories are often seen as some of the biggest culprits of environmental pollution due to their massive energy ...

Mathis Wackernagel is the co-creator of Ecological Footprint, an open-source tool measuring human impact on the environment. He currently lives in California but attributes his passion for ...

A person’s ecological footprint is a measure of their impact on the environment. The average ecological footprint of each human is currently 2.3 hectares of land. This area is bigger than 3 ...

The wood-based material specialist gives the valuable resource of wood many lives and assumes comprehensive economic, ecological and ... of a limited carbon footprint can be one of the hardest ...

Does ChatGPT hoover up more energy than Google Search? How much carbon dioxide do AI models produce? We discuss the ...

Historic canals provide “vital” corridors of waterways, hedgerows and habitats for wildlife to move through the landscape, the charity which cares for them has said. The Canal & River Trust ...